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Hi there. So about a month ago I lost a Mille Fleur Roo to some sort of eye infection it looked like. It got swollen, pussy and cloudy until it sealed shut and was gooy. About 3 weeks ago, I had a rooster get the same symptoms until I put it down the other day bc it just wasnt eating. now I...

Hi all...I am a chicken guy really, but this year we got two call ducklings. At least I was told they were call ducklings...they seem to be growing pretty big....or at least bigger than I expected for call ducks. First question is there any way I can tell whether I have call ducklings or...

Ok, so here is my dilemma. Ive had hens for about a year, and recently introduced a Salmon Favorelle Rooster to the flock. They all get along, and the roo has had his fun with almost every hen in the flock. How do I knwo they are fertile, hatching eggs, vs non fertile. Ive candled them after...

Hi everyone...I am a chicken guy. I am picking up 4 call ducklings tomorrow. They are 2 days old. I am thinking of getting a plastic tote container, using hardware wire to raise off the bottom and put wood chips below the wire. feeder and waterer. If I wanted to not do the hardware wire as...

Hey everyone....Ive been a BYC member for a long time now, and have grown our flock to 14 hens. i am in RI wherre there are mixed laws in keeping chickens. Where I am it is ok, butt he town next to me it is illegal. On the other side of me, you can even keep roosters with no problems. I...

So here is my dillema...if anyone has any pointers, suggestions, or comments, please leave them. I have a run attached to my coop. see pic. it is a sand bottom (sand and earth). my problem is that i do have some drainage probs and normal rain storms make it somewhat damp to wet inside...

I am not sure what to do next??? I have a flock of 10 hens, 4 barred rocks, 2 ri reds and 4 ameracaunas. I noticed a while back that I had mites (small, gnat sized, tan colored bugs) all over the barred rocks and one of the reds. I dusted them with permetherin (sp?) poultry dust and I have...

So silly question....but we noticed with one of our Amauracanas would arch her back and lift up her wings a bit whenever approached to be picked up. Then I nticed a couple of the other Amauracanas started doing it...now our entire flock of 10 basically all do the same thing. Just curious...

Now that its warming up here in New England, the chickens are hanging out in the run most of the day. I DLM inside the coop, and it is dry, odor free and for the most part, fly free. Outside is 12x10 run attached to the coop. I have 10 hens, see signature for roll call. Anyway...like I said...

We have finally finished our coop/run. I was lucky enough to find th ecoop for sale, and I made my revisions to it. The Brown shed with the star was already there. the coop is next to it. I tore out 6 nesting boxes, put in three roosts, and then built the run next to it from the ground up...

My 21 week old EE, Falcon, just layed her 2nd egg in 3 days. small blueish green. I saw her laying in the nesting box looking like she was ready, and sure enough when I came back, the egg was onthe sand floor of her outdoor run. how do I get her to lay in the nesting boxes in side her coop...

So after waiting patiently for a few months, we finally got our first blue egg. One of our 4 Ameraucanas laid it yday outside in the run. It was very small. We get eggs from our Reds and Barreds, but we got our Ameraucana hens at younger ages. We think it was Buttercup. She is 20 weeks. So...